Intracellular Transport of Single-Headed Molecular Motors KIF1A

作者：Katsuhiro Nishinari, Yasushi Okada, Andreas Schadschneider, Debashish Chowdhury · 发表于：Physical Review Letters · 年份：2005 · DOI：10.1103/physrevlett.95.118101 · 被引用次数：207 · 研究领域：stochastic dynamics and bifurcation、Quantum chaos and dynamical systems、Protein Structure and Dynamics

Motivated by experiments on single-headed kinesin KIF1A, we develop a model of intracellular transport by interacting molecular motors. It captures explicitly not only the effects of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis, but also the ratchet mechanism which drives individual motors. Our model accounts for the experimentally observed single-molecule properties in the low-density limit and also predicts a phase diagram that shows the influence of hydrolysis and Langmuir kinetics on the collective spatiotemporal organization of the motors. Finally, we provide experimental evidence for the existence of domain walls in our in vitro experiment with fluorescently labeled KIF1A.